navy marines. actually it's used by the marines. cnn national security contributor fran townsend joins me now from new york. fran is a member of both the cia and department of homeland security external advisory boards. good morning, fran. >> good morning, carol. >> when you look at the pictures on iranian state tv, is this an american drone or not in your eyes? >> well, it's clearly an american-made drone, right? as you mentioned, it's made by the boeing company, an american company that does in the aerospace defense sector, but, of course, the united states is not the only country that uses these drones. for example, the united arab emirates right across the persian gulf also uses scan eagles. it's not clear when the iranian it's captured this. american officials say they have accounted for all of their unmanned airlinal vehice -- aer vehicles in the middle east. it's unclear when the iranians seized this scan eagle, who it belongs to, and by the way as the pictures we have just shown demonstrate, this is a carefully orchestrated